Engineering
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A BFF in front of every frontend
Why our public blog and our dashboard never talk to the API directly — and what the extra hop buys us in security, caching and simplicity.
Amina Odhiambo
Articles
4 articles
Engineering
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Autosave that never lies
Debounced, serialized and honest: how the editor decides when to say “Saved”, and what happens when two people edit at once.
Amina Odhiambo
Engineering
1 min read
Why we run MongoDB as a replica set everywhere
Even on a laptop. Transactions need a replica set, and we refuse to have a code path that only exists in production.
Wanjiru Mwangi
Engineering
1 min read
Accessible rich-text editing in practice
An accessible form around an inaccessible editor is still inaccessible. What we tested, what we fixed, and what we gave up.
Brian Kiptoo